Thanks for the comments to my last post! I’m trying to figure out how to reply to them because I’ve seen blogs that do that. For now I can’t do that when I’m here since I can’t spend that much time on the computer – I’m still at my uncle/aunt’s house. Not counting today, I only have 8 days left in Hong Kong before I head back to Vancouver! Kind of disappointed that it’s ending so soon already. Luckily I’ve visited almost everywhere I wanted to go. Before I didn’t want to go to places because it’s way too hot (32C does that to you) and now it’s just thunderstorms and pouring rain. Great.
Since this trip, I have taken over 1,200 pictures and already filled up my 2GB memory card. Not to mention the 256mb of my backup camera because I forgot to charge the battery of my main camera. Thanks to my uncle who “lended” me his 8GB memory card, I can take more pictures in my last week here in Hong Kong.
HK Harbour (to Central)
On Wednesdays, the museums in Hong Kong are all free, meaning we all went to visit the ones that were interesting. And this meant us walking for 5+ hours non-stop until dinner time. While I thought it was worth it, my feet surely don’t. It’s getting bumpy down there and hurting too. We took the tram to Shau Kei Wan to visit the Coastal Defense Museum, had lunch, then MTR down to Tsim Sha Tsui for everything else. We went to the Science museum, History museum, Chinese Arts museum and Space museum (lame) while walking along the broadwalk of the harbour. This is the rare instances where the fog (or smog?) doesn’t overwhelm the view!
We're from Canada!
On Friday, we headed to Macau for a visit. I haven’t visited there since I was a child, so I was due a visit to Hong Kong’s neighbour – an hour boat ride via TurboJet. Luckily I still had Gravol from the cruise to Mexico of last year; I was too lazy to take them out, or you can call it just in case. The boat ride was pretty rocky for me – a easily motion sickness person. We were in luck because while the weather was hot, there was no rain or storm as predicted. Macau’s main revenue stream is of casinos and it has over 30 of them already and 3 more are opening next month. I’m not sure where all these people come from who have the money to spend like that. Or that one person and his family own a lot of the casinos and buildings in Macau. I even got carded once even though the adult age is 18… not 21 like in US. Yay for me looking young? We also went to the Macau Tower, which was definitely less scary when standing on the semi-glass floors since we already got frightened from the Shanghai one.
Bungee Jumper from Macau Tower
But this tower does hold the Guiness World Record for highest bungee jumping place ever. And several tourists did try it out, for a price of $2,100 (MOP/HKD) each and it lasts for 4 seconds. I’d do it if I had that kind of money to spend, and wasn’t wearing my glasses that day.
That’s all for now as I look into how to book our seats because now apparently you can only do it online and 48 hours before your flight. And since our flight is at 12:05am, where are we going to find a computer to do so?! This does not make sense. It’d be easier if I was travelling by myself and it was one seat! We’re figure it out, there are free computers at the MTR stations and the last train is way past midnight… so we’ll pay to go in and get out, I guess!
